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Safety & prequalification

The paperwork that gets checked before the bid is opened.

Nobody hires an underground contractor on charm. Before a public owner opens your envelope they look at a rating, two insurance certificates and a bond letter. Here are ours, in the order they get asked for.

  • 0.71EMRThree-year experience modification rate
  • 1.9TRIRTotal recordable incident rate
  • 100%OSHA 30Of supervisors hold the 30-hour card
  • 412kHoursWorked since the last lost-time incident

An experience modification rate below 1.00 means our workers’ compensation losses come in under the average for our trade and payroll size. It is the single number most owners use to decide whether a contractor is allowed to bid at all, and it is the one figure on this page that cannot be written by a marketing department - the insurer calculates it.

On the ground

What that number is actually made of

A rating is a result. These are the habits that produce it, and they are the same on a two-day bore as on a four-month interceptor.

  • Site-specific safety plan

    Written for the job, not photocopied. Reviewed with the owner before mobilisation.

  • Daily job hazard analysis

    Every crew, every morning, signed by everyone on site including visitors.

  • Competent person on every crew

    Trench and excavation competent person on site whenever the ground is open.

  • 811 before every bore

    Locates called, marks verified, and soft-dig potholing at every crossing we cannot see.

  • Drug and alcohol program

    Pre-employment, random, post-incident, and DOT-regulated where the work requires it.

  • Third-party audited

    Registered with the contractor prequalification services our clients use.

Bonding & insurance

Limits and prequalifications

Current certificates and a bond letter go out with every bid package. If your specification calls for higher limits on a particular job, ask before bid day - it is usually a phone call to our agent, not a reason to leave us out.

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As currently carried
Single project bonding capacity$8,000,000
Aggregate bonding capacity$20,000,000
General liability$2,000,000 each occurrence
Excess / umbrella$10,000,000
Workers compensationStatutory, all states worked
Prequalifications heldSCDOT, NCDOT, Class A rail

The rule we do not bend

Nobody enters an unprotected trench. Ever.

Trench collapse is still the way this trade kills people, and it happens in five feet of ground far more often than in fifteen.

  • Shoring, shielding or sloping on every excavation, sized by a competent person, before anyone goes in.
  • Spoil set back from the edge, and the edge inspected after every rain.
  • Ladder or ramp within 25 feet of every worker in the hole.
  • Atmosphere tested in any pit deeper than four feet before entry.
  • Any crew member can stop work, with no conversation required and nothing said about it afterwards.
  • Near misses get reported and reviewed with the same weight as an injury.
  • Subcontractors are prequalified on their own record, not ours.
  • Your safety orientation, if you have one, comes first - ours is the floor, not the ceiling.